Folks, some more info - this was a test flight in 2013 of a new Su-35S that rolled off the factory floor, piloted by a test pilot who had flown the same aircraft earlier. The problem was (apparently) an algorithm issue with the FCS in the longitudinal axis. The pilot continued his career to become an Su-57 test pilot.
As a person who has designed & coded (software) FCS algorithms myself (U.S. jets), I apologize on behalf of my far-away Russian cohorts who wrote the software here. Software is incredibly sensitive to bugs like a wrong "+" where there should be a "-", one keystroke wrong, for example, that doesn't get tested on the ground properly to catch in advance. Also, sometimes an algorithm designer writes an incorrect specification, handed off to a software code writer for implementation. You know. Mistakes.
@@softwaresignals In my experience, it's the incorrect specification where the trouble starts, all a coder can do is code to the spec ant test, test , test... but a dodgy spec is an insidious monster that will not show it's flaws until it's too late!, even if the software is written precisely to spec!
@@duncan8238 Validation Testing is supposed to catch bad algorithm specs (Systems Design level), yet I've seen some algorithm Systems Engineers write bad specs and somehow miss it when trying it out in the simulator! Peer reviews are supposed to catch what some young silly engineers spec. ... Long story. Too much to talk about. Also, basic memory management problems, an array or structure exceeding bounds in size (when not strongly-typed or a compiler error occurs), or any of a number of sloppy practices can pop up at unexpected times. Both spec & coding errors have happened about equally in my career.
The pilot not only saved the aircraft. He gave the aircraft investigators the opportunity to find out what caused the FCS malfunction. Future aircrashes will be prevented due to this.
What actually happened is that the pilot was able to maneuver the plane by altering its center of gravity by slightly displacing his massive iron balls left and right.
No wonder he couldn't eject even if he wanted to - each of his iron balls weighed 1000 pounds each and were too heavy for the ejection seat rocket motor.
when you said that the original video was 54 minutes long, i felt even more respect for that pilot. i cant imagine how stressfull this whole event must be.
Believe or not, my neighbour had a brother. They were visiting our place pretty often. I remember a day when they came and go (nothing special). Next week they came as well, but the guy was truly white hair (like a snow). What I learned later on, he was also a test pilot and had some sort of issue while flying. Whatever that was, it was in the '80-s and was to be kept in secret. - I never know the whole story. So I pretty much admire the pilot! What could he do? Eject, while there is a city down below?
@@meandnoother No, he wasn't trying to save himself, he had plenty of opportunity to safely eject. There were factories an airbase, and a town below him. He was primarily trying to protect the lives of people on the ground, and secondarily saving the aircraft. Although under a lot of stress, the pilot was not in too much fear for his life.
I can tell you for a _fact_ this guy is one of the best pilots who ever kicked rudder and hauled stick. I mean he is up there with Bob Hoover and Chuck Yeager. Most people who've never flown do not realize how brutal extreme high G flying actually is. The thing is, in extreme aerobatic performances, and even in WVR dogfights, the pilot is in control of their aircraft. Aerobatic routines (like the one flown by the SU-35, which if you've not seen it is an absolute _beast_ routine, full of crazy TVC high AoA 7 & 9G maneuvers) are carefully designed to allow 'soft G load' maneuvers that give the pilot a chance to recover and set up for the next rapid onset high G maneuver. Fighter pilots in dogfights wind up pulling crazy G constantly (SU-35 is rated at 9G I believe); in a two circle rate fight, where you have two jets nose to tail, each one trying to pull a better turn rate (25°/sec is better than 21°/sec, which means the 25° pilot is going to win the rate fight..if they can stay conscious and out of gLoc long enough). But even in a rate fight you can give yourself little breaks by easing up on the stick for even a second to clear your vision and get a good, deep breath. This pilot had none of those options; his jet was loading up the G and he had to take that for close to 15 minutes nonstop. I'd bet that his g load was never much below 6 and probably often was around 8 or 9. This pilot was in serious danger of dying. But he did not want to eject because the jet was flying so erratically there was no way to predict where it would crash once he ejected. So you got this guy thinking about trying to save himself, his jet, _and_ trying to avoid a great, flaming mass of wreckage landing on houses and people below, _and he has to literally invent a new emergency procedure on the spot while under extreme g loads _with no way to unload those G's!_ What he did was pure genius. What he _is_ , is a true hero because that incident could've gone south in a hot New York second upand left the pilot, the Su-35, and God knows how many civilians on the ground below incinerated, bludgeoned, blown up, _DEAD_ Guy's a truly great pilot. Seriously. He should get a medal for that.
You are mostly correct. But as with its older Flanker variants, the Su-35S is not rated for 9G, IF it has above a certain amount of fuel. I think its a little different vs its older Flanker variant, i don't have flight manual.. but due to the fact this Flanker has a crazy 11.500kg, and older Flanker had around 9.700kg of fuel if its topped out. The older Flanker could pull 9G when the fuel amount came down to around 6.500kg give or take. So in that regard around 6.500kg and 7.500kg of fuel, and Su-35S can pull 9G
Saying that he was always above 6g is mostly false - you can see that in much of the footage he's in a level turn banked left by 45 degrees. No matter what plane you fky, a 45 deg ledt bank is a g force of around 1.4, which is the idle load in a centrifuge. This isn't to take away from the magnitude of what this pilot has done, but realistically 6 g's for that long would have g-locked him
I do speak Russian. Great job translating-WAY better than what we get on television! For pilots I wish Russian curse words were translatable in to English as it paints the pilots verbiage much more clearly :) Great job on video! Great job by pilot!
The opening scene of this video massively understates the sheer talent and professionalism of this above brave pilot. One thing brought a huge smile to my face which was the swear word "Fuuuuu" is really a universal expression for frustration plus the common "🐂💩" I agree that he saved he lives of alot of people by his actions in not giving up. This event is even more stunning by the way he kept calm while unde a considerable amount of pain from the G's and just focused on each problem in front of himself. It would be incredible if we could see a clip with him talking about he event sometime later.
Russian curse words cannot be translated into any language. Therefore, even the former Soviet Union countries, having their own languages, use Russian curse words that have a bright versatility and deep meaning depending on the intonation and situation. Russian swearing is a separate language of communication that allows you to shorten words to the maximum and maximize the emotions conveyed.
@@TopMusic-rf3mt ALL Languages can be translated to each other (just some of them might not be a word for word but word for sentence to explain the translation.
After an hour of wrestling in the air: Rolling out on "piano keys" ie the thresh hold start, nose aligned, right flare height, deploying the break chutes before touch down, dropping the beast like a brick, superb inspiration for all jet jockeys...
What a pro, he deserves a great deal of recognition for his efforts. Hopefully the government acknowledged this pilot's courage and skill, because there probably aren't many pilots that could have pulled this off. Absolute nerves of steel!!
He was nominated for an annual flight safety award. Today he has been transferred to the Sukhoi Design Bureau headquarters and works with Su-57 aircraft in Zhukovsky, near Moscow.
Sukhoi: *Aggressively tries to send the pilot to heaven* Western Pilot: *Bails Out* Russian Pilot: Not today bitch I am laughing, seeing how the pilot is talking to the aircraft as if he were the single parent of a naughty child. LOL
Hey, talking to the equipment works sometimes...I once had a computer that kept acting up in preparation for a major milestone test with the customer present. Right before the start of the "For grade" test, I leaned over the computer and quietly told it that if it didn't act right I was going to "string it up by its ethernet cable, rip its RAM out, and flash its BIOS!" After the test was complete, the Colonel for the Customer group came over and said, "Your threats to the computer worked perfectly"
That’s total BS. Look up “F-22 test control error” and you’ll see an F-22 test pilot ride an electronically induced pitch oscillation right into the ground
In other "air crash" scenarios with planes that develop difficult control issues, the pilots usually adapt to the new circumstances and eventually figure out ways to combat the erratic FCS issues. The pilot here does the same, he tries everything to develop counter measures. Really, it looks completely awful from the video, but for the pilot he is intimately familiar with the plane and has more confidence than a spectator. Completely amazing that he put it down despite the throttle/handling problems. By 12 minutes, his voice sounds calmer, and they have gained some improvement. A real achievement to actually put it down in one piece.
@@mrpicky1868 Whoa! Compare Soviet/Russian spacecraft safety with American, and you would not be saying this (three crewed Soyuz launch failures have been survived, whereas Shuttle crews were defenceless for the first two minutes of flight. Only two Soviet flights, Voskhods 1 and 2, had no escape mechanisms for the first 20 second of flight). In the case here, the pilot was far from a critical point where he had to eject; there are several videos here on RUclips of test pilots of similar Russian aircraft ejecting in truly dangerous, last split-second circumstances and surviving uninjured, so one can assume that their ejection systems are proven and reliable. i was impressed at how well the undercarriage stood up to the parachute-induced landing.
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The way he timed that chute deployment is just amazing, he is so damn lucky the plane didn't pitch up 5 seconds earlier because that would have been way to early to deploy the chute but he timed it just right. Amazing flying skills, i hope he got some sort of an award for saving this aircraft. He could have just said f this i am out and ejected, but he fought the plane and won.💪👍
He had two previous attempts that gave him an idea about roll out timing altitude and used that to know when to pop the chute. Hope he was give a medal of honor. Those puppies cost mucho ruples
I hope you showing off the heroic approach will gain more views than Trevor's did. And you did a great job letting us know what is going on. Kudos to that pilot for his guts and skill and clear thinking. And the Russian language sounds pretty cool too.
As the video opened, I could not believe what I was seeing, the backstory even more incredible. The go arounds he used to fine tune his attitude just before touchdown, then used the brake chutes to yank the plane onto the runway - even a STOL.landing !
Incredible, imagine all that time and stress under g forces you arent intending. However....if it was me I would have quit to desktop and recalibrated my pitch axis. No bother.
Amazing airmanship and skill, Bob Hoover would be proud. This is an awesome display of skill and out of the box thinking. Uncontrolled pitch up is probably the worst case scenario. This reminds me of Delta flight 1080 on April 12, 1977 a Lockheed L-1011 that departed San Diego with an uncontrolled pitch up and was safely landed back in LAX by Captain Jack McMahan and his crew. Once again hats off to the Russian pilot, well done.
amazing stuff. I can't believe he didn't eject not long after take-off. That's extreme confidence on his part that he could regain control of the aircraft under those conditions. He should have gotten a commendation of some sort after that performance and getting the aircraft back on the ground in one piece.
уверенность в системе катапультирования. на русских самолетах лучшая в мире система. насколько я слышал было время когда американцы даже хотели закупать на свои машины эти кресла к-36 если правильно помню но изза очевидных политических разногласий и необходимости по законам сша иметь больший контроль производства не получилось. если я прав у американцев около 25% катапультирования неудачны и пилоты гибнут а на русской системе не более 4%
@@ivannegrozni7692 You have to take into consideration how many airplanes are flying in the US in comparison to Russia, not only is it 10 times more but also most of the failed ejections are due to bad maintenance or user error.
@@DrakyHRT ты не прав.выборка процента неудач изначально включает количество. тоесть это учитывается изначально в подсчетах. например 100 катапультирований и у тебя 5 неудач это будет 5% но из 1000 катапультирований 5% это 50 неудач. поэтому не важно сколько у тебя самолетов летает. так же неудачи изза обслуживания это не показатель. ведь и в россии при плохом обслуживании будет больше неудач как и в сша. разница как раз в том что кресла катапультные русские изначально имеют высокую степень надежности на срабатывание.и обслуживать их не требуется так тщательно как американские.потому русские кресла системы катапультирования и считаются лучшими в мире.консрукция этих систем изначально лучше + надежность изготовления выше. насколько я знаю русские катапульты имеют около 4% неудачных случаев катапультирования. не знаю какой процент у современных американских но несколько лет назад я видел цифру около 25%. в любом случае русские кресла лучше любых других.
@@ivannegrozni7692 the number for USA is around 7% failure rate on unmantained aircraft, only like 10 or so failures have happened in history so it's really hard to talk about it with a sample that small, the reason i talked about the number of aircraft is because with more aircraft flying, the higher the chance to use the ejection seat in case of an emergency, which mean the sample size is bigger.
Kudos to this pilot, for his amazing flying skills, his cool mind, his effort in saving the aircraft, and - I must say - the balls of steel he displays.
I have tried to leave a comment twice but i dont see them so i guess RUclips didnt like the russian links. Anyway, this happened in 2013 not in 2015 as reported by many sources. More specifically it was 12.11.2013 and 2015 is just when the story first surfaced. From the sound of it (i have links, but apparently cant link in the comments) the issue was firmware of the algorithm for the horizontal axis. The pilot went on to be a testpilot in the T-50/Su-57 program, well deserved. Thank you for doing this video! I am russian speaking but i had real trouble picking up a lot of the dialogue. The way he was pleading with the aircraft and was talking to it is so hilarious and so very Russian.
Oh very interesting, could you send me the links to my email by any chance? commandt26@gmail.com Yeah some of the stuff is hard to pick up even as a native-speaker. Had to listen to a few parts about 5 or 6 times to be sure.
Thanks for that input. Many do not understand how much lines of code go into these digital flight control systems. I was directly involved in some developmental testing of a new auto-pilot for a cargo aircraft. Lots and lots of test flights with installed measuring equipment to get it all right.
@@sukhoifan Thanks a million, got it! Will review tomorrow and maybe make a follow- up- video if there's interesting insights. Thanks a million for sharing!
As far as I know, this happened because the control stick was registered in the control unit only for pitch up. When the speed changes, the automatic control system imitates the load on the control stick, as if on muscle-controlled aircraft, the "0" position of the stick changed, and the aircraft went into a nose-up. Failures were not indicated, as all automation worked flawlessly. such things ... (translated and voiced by Google, do not scold for mistakes)
So instead of it being registered for pitch up and down and roll left and right it was only pitch up, meaning all the inputs for all the directions were being put into the pitch up control ? and that is why it did that ? wow that is the kind of think i will mess up in kerbal space program trying to fly an aircraft, silly mistake but humans fail sometimes, thanks for the info.
Wow. 😳 That was some real steel nerve flying right there. To be operating that bitchy pitchy airplane in a constant pitch-up and roll only a few hundred feet off the deck while trying to land it was not for the faint hearted. I hope the man received all sorts of accolades/awards after the fact. Great video.
Pilot and controller yelling at each other, and pilot cursing at the plane as it has a mind of its own is such a Russian thing, also replacing words with curses, love it. :) I am sure you've seen the Air Astana Flight 1388 story, if not - highly recommend it, the situation is much worse, absolutely incredible work by the pilots to set that plane down.
man I hate the very description of the faulty maintenance that lead to it. my mind is messed up from reading the technical summary. it's literally the stuff of nightmares -- trying to fly a death trap that doesn't like to be flown. having ailerons reversed, but not being able to reverse input... c'mon...
The pilot and the controller don't yell at each other. This is a flight test airfield, if you want the pilot, under stress and 9G, to hear you, you'll have to yell.
@@TopMusic-rf3mt lol, if you spoke Russian then you would know. Pilot: "Plane is uncontrollable", ATC: "Can't hear you well", Pilot (yelling on top of his lungs, directed at ATC): "Plane is uncontrollable, f**k your mother!!! b**ch!!!!". Further down, pilot calms down, but controller is aggravated for the same reason and raises his voice, not to mention pilot cursing at the plane and at the situation. Very understandable, but it's a pretty Russian way to deal with stressful situation.
The Air Astana Flight 1388 is, undoubtedly, one of the most insane examples of EXTREME airmanship in the history of flight. Those pilots did the impossible. The fact that the air frame was so over stressed during the flight that the aircraft was scrapped on the spot tells THAT tale......the fact that they actually put the plane on a runway, wheels down and they walked away is shocking in the extreme.
That's very impressive and lucky the brake parachute didn't have to rely on a weight on wheels switch to be deployed. Incredible airmanship and great vid.
The landing chute is one of the emergency features to be used in older planes to recover from the flat spin or inverted leaf falling, you have that one change to pop-it and the chute will drag plane nose down dive and you get to recover from it.
@@paristo We used them in the RAF but only in spinning trials for aircraft like Jaguar and Tornado - never knew the Russians had them fitted full time, thanks for that knowledge.
@@paristo That is not the case in Soviet aircraft -- the chutes are for reducing wear on wheels and brakes and capacity to stop the aircraft quickly while on the ground -- especially important for highway airfields, should the need arise.
@@ShadeAKAhayate that is the case. I didn't mention the obvious as I said it is landing chute, meant primarily for landing distance reduction when runway is shorter for conventional landing.
Mad respect for the pilot. Also, appreciation on all test pilots who tread the dangerous path of wrangling out the unexpected kinks and quirks from raw machines up in the air, day in, day out.
what's lost in translation is that pilot is addressing controller as plural (honorific way speaking). Controller is addressing the pilot as singular (casual terms of speaking). It could be because there are many people are consulting with a controller or it could be because controller just has a higher status :P
His Nz indication is showing 0 in the HUD when it should be 1 on the ground. Guessing the FCS's accelerometer in the normal axis has failed. Hence the aircraft wanting to trim the stabiliser trailing edge up seeking 1g flight. Normally the FCS accelerometer sensors are independent of the primary navigation systems. By establiahing a turn, the FCS's pitch rate damping helps to counteract the pitchup caused by the incorrectly sensed g. I'm guessing had he observed the incorrect g indication on taxi, he probably would have canceled the takeoff. You could also see the gear, with its natural pitch down moment, helped stabilise the aircraft.
It's pretty hard to fathom how he pulled this off. I can't wrap my head around how he kept his cool and found a way to put the plane down safely. Nuts!
Wild he fought this thing for 52 minutes, that’s crazy long to be up there pulling G’s and trying to troubleshoot. I hope to have this much courage and tenacity when called on.
Now that is some EXTREME tech support. Amazing airmanship by the pilot. Him chastising the plane is pretty funny, though don't think it was much fun for him.
That was extremely bad airmanship. Good airmanship would have been to eject after about 15-20 seconds of flight. Maybe you don’t know the meaning of airmanship. It was great handling, but catastrophic airmanship.
When the pilot survives: "there was a problem with the plane, and our incredible pilot overcame all odds and survived" When the pilot dies: "pilot induced error" every single time
An amazing piece of flying and pilot deserves huge credit for staying with the aircraft. Can we have an update to let us know what technical faults had caused the aircraft to react in that way, an has any other aircraft suffered in a cimilar way . Thank you for sharing this with us all.
I don't think they will share this info keeping in mind this is a fighter jet in service nowadays, i wish they do it but just to have this footage it's a lot. About this failure it's very uncommon but the fact that the airplane creates interference using the direct control mode suggest me that it's an electrical problem, something it was still engaged even using the direct input. Also because of that random warnings showed on the screen. But if it is a test flight, maybe a bad designed experimental software update? Anything can be.
Pilot comes back home that day after work. Mariya: How was your day? Aleksei: Normal. Work was crazy. Mariya: I wanted to ask you, would you still love me if I was a worm? Aleksei: I forgot something in the office *goes for some spine crunching high G rolls and loops* Aleksei: "At least I know what BS to expect here..."
That’s some of the finest flying I’ve ever seen - hats off to that pilot for working the problem when most might have given up and said, ‘This is too crazy I’m outta here’. The final icing on the cake was his chutes deployment in a last desperate attempt to counter the threshold pitch up - what a split second move. Definitely deserves a DFC. Balls of unobtainium.👍
People underestimate Russian pilots so much. Same thing during cold war, all those elite pilots in Korea, Vietnam and bunch of African conflicts were Soviet volunteers. In USSR there was a program that pilots could apply for to gain real experience, after this they should be forcefully retired as teachers to train future pilots. A lot of pilots did this because thrill and the fact that it basically guaranteed them a very high pay, teacher position, a lot of them also ended up flying civilian passenger planes. People do not understand but in USSR, flying passengers was some of the highest honours you could do, and you actually needed to serve in the airforce to be approved for it, that is why USSR had so few airplane crashes comparable to anyone else. People underestimate but Aeroflot flew more despite having fewer passengers. Most Soviet airports were in remote cities in Siberia and Arctic which had extremely difficult conditions. In particular event, a Soviet passenger airplane slid in the runaway duo to ice build up in less then 5 minutes. Pilots used their engine thrusts in split second moment to correct the plane and ended up with only a few fatalities and a complete hull loss, unheard of in the west under such conditions, because Soviet pilots were trained for exactly these things but to mention Soviet passenger airplane were often retrofitted military planes usually has much stronger super structure as a result.
Thanks for sharing, Maybe in the future a young pilot will remember this piloting feat and save himself or herself as well. A big cheers to that brave and smart pilot!
I land planes like this all the time. In simulators, with the experience I had gained by crashing +100 times. This guy has a pair of steel balls for doing this IRL with broken FCS.
Would`ve been a great advertisement for the maufacturer if they had a wreck of their product right next to the production site. In all seriousness, this is beyond amazing. This is something very few pilots would`ve pulled off successfully. Got to love russian hardware. If it fails, it`s a pain. But a pain you can still salvage in some cases. Also have to give them credit for the incredibly rugged undercarriage. This Sukhoi literally crashed onto the pavement and shook it off. But, if I`m not mistaken, pretty much all russian fighters come with an insanely robust landing gear since the infrastructure sometimes is less then ideal.
Yep, Russian gear has always been designed with poor runway surfaces and off-site landings in mind, including unpaved strips and fields. Western landing gear does always look a bit puny by comparison unless it's a carrier aircraft. I bet that's why the Finns and Swiss partly opted for an F/A-18 over the typical land-born western fighters.
Wonderful skill set. Clearly well trained, calm & cool. I'm close to USN pilots. Will run this by a few for hints on how they would handle the situation.
That is not some "controller", that is senior/ chief/ test pilot giving hints. Swearing is "nominal" as this is a major fu... err, messup. As a proverb from Soviet times says, "A test pilot should be able to fly everything that is able to fly, and, with certain difficulties, to fly what cannot be flown".
Летчик-испытатель. Пилоты в гражданской авиации, в военной - летчики. Я сам гражданский, но как-то исторически так повелось. Это как корабль и судно. Гражданские - суда, военные - корабли.
9:29 controller didn't get "aggravated". He raised his voice because the pilot asked him to repeat what he just said, because he couldn't make it out. I mean, if you'r speaking over the phone and the other guy says he didn't hear you - you speak louder, it's pretty natural
Thanks for that rare footage. Considering you seem to have all the flight datas, it would have been super interesting at the end of the video to add a tacview of the entire path this pilot went through his struggle
Это истребитель, он лёгкий. Причина такого поведения - отказ дистанционной системы управления (или инверсия по одной из осей управления). Наши лётчики сажали большой пассажирский Ту 154, где после технического обслуживания перепутали каналы управления по тангажу и рысканью. "Голландский шаг" на такой машине очень непросто сделать. И они смогли посадить его!
Автор, неплохой у тебя английский, хоть и есть лёгкий акцентик. По видео - с "цифрой " видать проблемы были. Но как пилот этот косяк победил. Вероятно попытками и понял как на этом косяке на полосу выйти. Выпустил тормозные на удачу и плюхнулся на бетонку с метров 7 жестко.. ёпт.. как стойки выдержали такой удар. Очень опытный пилот. Можно только представить разборы с цифровой группой инженеров)) А парень пилот точно звезду на китель получил. Супер!
Oh and those Gs almost constantly ouch. Great flier indeed. I do believe this unwillingness to bail is quite natural human thinking. We have this urge to try and save the situation, sometimes to our determent. We just don't want to admit defeat.
If you look at the HUD right above the left end of the sideslip indicator there is something that reads "Nz". Would that be the G meter? It constantly reads 0 (at times flickering to 0.1 or 0.2). If the G-meter had an error and the FCS thought the plane was in a zero-G dive it might make sense that FCS commanded pitch-up to correct. Just a hypothesis.
This was absolutely mesmerizing. Great commentary. What a great save, popping the chutes to get it finally on the runway. Staggering amount of skill to do that. (The Trevor Jacob elbow at the end cracked me up)
Folks, some more info - this was a test flight in 2013 of a new Su-35S that rolled off the factory floor, piloted by a test pilot who had flown the same aircraft earlier. The problem was (apparently) an algorithm issue with the FCS in the longitudinal axis. The pilot continued his career to become an Su-57 test pilot.
I’m curious if he ever said MAYDAY or specifically declared an emergency (I don’t speak Russian).
As a person who has designed & coded (software) FCS algorithms myself (U.S. jets), I apologize on behalf of my far-away Russian cohorts who wrote the software here. Software is incredibly sensitive to bugs like a wrong "+" where there should be a "-", one keystroke wrong, for example, that doesn't get tested on the ground properly to catch in advance. Also, sometimes an algorithm designer writes an incorrect specification, handed off to a software code writer for implementation. You know. Mistakes.
@@PetesGuide No but I suppose he don't have to do it. It's a test flight so emergency starts when the pilot take a seat in the aircraft cabin.
@@softwaresignals In my experience, it's the incorrect specification where the trouble starts, all a coder can do is code to the spec ant test, test , test... but a dodgy spec is an insidious monster that will not show it's flaws until it's too late!, even if the software is written precisely to spec!
@@duncan8238 Validation Testing is supposed to catch bad algorithm specs (Systems Design level), yet I've seen some algorithm Systems Engineers write bad specs and somehow miss it when trying it out in the simulator! Peer reviews are supposed to catch what some young silly engineers spec. ... Long story. Too much to talk about. Also, basic memory management problems, an array or structure exceeding bounds in size (when not strongly-typed or a compiler error occurs), or any of a number of sloppy practices can pop up at unexpected times. Both spec & coding errors have happened about equally in my career.
The pilot not only saved the aircraft. He gave the aircraft investigators the opportunity to find out what caused the FCS malfunction. Future aircrashes will be prevented due to this.
Could have gotten the same info by ejecting and reading out the FDR !! That was a stupid stunt nothing else
he serves $10 bottle of vodka. no $3 bottle of vodka for him
@XYZ AERO You wanker 🙄 Does your Mum know you are out alone
@@xyzaero How is it a stupid stunt? He saved a fucking expensive fighter to begin with.
@@xyzaero it’s not a stunt he knows what he is doing
What actually happened is that the pilot was able to maneuver the plane by altering its center of gravity by slightly displacing his massive iron balls left and right.
"Back"
The Flanker series exhibit vertical instability, not horizontal.
@@LongTran-em6hc And front...
His balls are so big that the plane was overweight.
No wonder he couldn't eject even if he wanted to - each of his iron balls weighed 1000 pounds each and were too heavy for the ejection seat rocket motor.
@@srfrg9707 Yes that's exactly what I say when I go for my annual physical - don't forget the front
when you said that the original video was 54 minutes long, i felt even more respect for that pilot. i cant imagine how stressfull this whole event must be.
Yeah not for the faint-hearted
I wonder how his underpants held up?
@@duncan8238 Pretty well judging by the sound of his voice anyway
and then you come home and your wife asks 'how was your day?' Imagine that interaction?x)
Believe or not, my neighbour had a brother. They were visiting our place pretty often. I remember a day when they came and go (nothing special). Next week they came as well, but the guy was truly white hair (like a snow). What I learned later on, he was also a test pilot and had some sort of issue while flying. Whatever that was, it was in the '80-s and was to be kept in secret. - I never know the whole story.
So I pretty much admire the pilot! What could he do? Eject, while there is a city down below?
Kudos to that pilot! He did a great job in saving his aircraft.
As well as saving himself ;)
@@meandnoother No, he wasn't trying to save himself, he had plenty of opportunity to safely eject. There were factories an airbase, and a town below him. He was primarily trying to protect the lives of people on the ground, and secondarily saving the aircraft. Although under a lot of stress, the pilot was not in too much fear for his life.
Yeah some pilots actualy know their stuff.
The pilot's exasperation transcends the language barrier. "airplane, WTF are you doing? come on"
I can tell you for a _fact_
this guy is one of the best pilots who ever kicked rudder and hauled stick. I mean he is up there with Bob Hoover and Chuck Yeager. Most people who've never flown do not realize how brutal extreme high G flying actually is. The thing is, in extreme aerobatic performances, and even in WVR dogfights, the pilot is in control of their aircraft. Aerobatic routines (like the one flown by the SU-35, which if you've not seen it is an absolute _beast_ routine, full of crazy TVC high AoA 7 & 9G maneuvers) are carefully designed to allow 'soft G load' maneuvers that give the pilot a chance to recover and set up for the next rapid onset high G maneuver.
Fighter pilots in dogfights wind up pulling crazy G constantly (SU-35 is rated at 9G I believe); in a two circle rate fight, where you have two jets nose to tail, each one trying to pull a better turn rate (25°/sec is better than 21°/sec, which means the 25° pilot is going to win the rate fight..if they can stay conscious and out of gLoc long enough). But even in a rate fight you can give yourself little breaks by easing up on the stick for even a second to clear your vision and get a good, deep breath.
This pilot had none of those options; his jet was loading up the G and he had to take that for close to 15 minutes nonstop. I'd bet that his g load was never much below 6 and probably often was around 8 or 9. This pilot was in serious danger of dying. But he did not want to eject because the jet was flying so erratically there was no way to predict where it would crash once he ejected. So you got this guy thinking about trying to save himself, his jet, _and_
trying to avoid a great, flaming mass of wreckage landing on houses and people below, _and he has to literally invent a new emergency procedure on the spot while under extreme g loads _with no way to unload those G's!_
What he did was pure genius. What he _is_ , is a true hero because that incident could've gone south in a hot New York second upand left the pilot, the Su-35, and God knows how many civilians on the ground below incinerated, bludgeoned, blown up, _DEAD_
Guy's a truly great pilot. Seriously. He should get a medal for that.
👍 brilliant comment!
He got uprated to a Su-57
That's a medal by itself
@@LongTran-em6hc
AWESOME! If I were an officer in charge of an air wing, that's the dude I'd want flying my new 5gen hyperexpensive stealth jet.
You are mostly correct.
But as with its older Flanker variants, the Su-35S is not rated for 9G, IF it has above a certain amount of fuel. I think its a little different vs its older Flanker variant, i don't have flight manual.. but due to the fact this Flanker has a crazy 11.500kg, and older Flanker had around 9.700kg of fuel if its topped out.
The older Flanker could pull 9G when the fuel amount came down to around 6.500kg give or take. So in that regard around 6.500kg and 7.500kg of fuel, and Su-35S can pull 9G
Saying that he was always above 6g is mostly false - you can see that in much of the footage he's in a level turn banked left by 45 degrees. No matter what plane you fky, a 45 deg ledt bank is a g force of around 1.4, which is the idle load in a centrifuge.
This isn't to take away from the magnitude of what this pilot has done, but realistically 6 g's for that long would have g-locked him
I do speak Russian. Great job translating-WAY better than what we get on television! For pilots I wish Russian curse words were translatable in to English as it paints the pilots verbiage much more clearly :) Great job on video! Great job by pilot!
The opening scene of this video massively understates the sheer talent and professionalism of this above brave pilot.
One thing brought a huge smile to my face which was the swear word "Fuuuuu" is really a universal expression for frustration plus the common "🐂💩"
I agree that he saved he lives of alot of people by his actions in not giving up.
This event is even more stunning by the way he kept calm while unde a considerable amount of pain from the G's and just focused on each problem in front of himself. It would be incredible if we could see a clip with him talking about he event sometime later.
It's only fully translatable to polish.
Russian curse words cannot be translated into any language. Therefore, even the former Soviet Union countries, having their own languages, use Russian curse words that have a bright versatility and deep meaning depending on the intonation and situation.
Russian swearing is a separate language of communication that allows you to shorten words to the maximum and maximize the emotions conveyed.
@@TopMusic-rf3mt ALL Languages can be translated to each other (just some of them might not be a word for word but word for sentence to explain the translation.
Nice for you. Go get some vodka
After an hour of wrestling in the air: Rolling out on "piano keys" ie the thresh hold start, nose aligned, right flare height, deploying the break chutes before touch down, dropping the beast like a brick, superb inspiration for all jet jockeys...
Amen
That is not a normal flare hight 🤦🏻♂️
One of the most impressive landings ever, if that parachute was planned like that then it's on par with most amazing landings ever.
United Airlines Flight 232 was the most impressive landing ever, just as impossible as this one, but they had 300 people on board...
@@DaelinTVit wasn’t at all
Bro, this pilot deserves all that can be awarded for demonstrating excellent airmanship. Bravo man dude!
What a pro, he deserves a great deal of recognition for his efforts. Hopefully the government acknowledged this pilot's courage and skill, because there probably aren't many pilots that could have pulled this off. Absolute nerves of steel!!
Yeah although it turns out he was a test pilot so it's just part of the job description lol
The acknowledgement came in the government bill charging for the cost of two burnt out non-reusable landing brake parachutes.
He was nominated for an annual flight safety award. Today he has been transferred to the Sukhoi Design Bureau headquarters and works with Su-57 aircraft in Zhukovsky, near Moscow.
Sukhoi: *Aggressively tries to send the pilot to heaven*
Western Pilot: *Bails Out*
Russian Pilot: Not today bitch
I am laughing, seeing how the pilot is talking to the aircraft as if he were the single parent of a naughty child. LOL
Hey, talking to the equipment works sometimes...I once had a computer that kept acting up in preparation for a major milestone test with the customer present. Right before the start of the "For grade" test, I leaned over the computer and quietly told it that if it didn't act right I was going to "string it up by its ethernet cable, rip its RAM out, and flash its BIOS!" After the test was complete, the Colonel for the Customer group came over and said, "Your threats to the computer worked perfectly"
That’s total BS. Look up “F-22 test control error” and you’ll see an F-22 test pilot ride an electronically induced pitch oscillation right into the ground
@@LostAnFound pilot escaped with minor injuries
huge L and the plane wasn't even flying that high
Western pilot bailed out because he already destroyed your pilot and it’s a victory jump
@@musicwithj1759 like that woman who crashed a 100 million dollar weapon into the South China sea? 🙂
In other "air crash" scenarios with planes that develop difficult control issues, the pilots usually adapt to the new circumstances and eventually figure out ways to combat the erratic FCS issues. The pilot here does the same, he tries everything to develop counter measures. Really, it looks completely awful from the video, but for the pilot he is intimately familiar with the plane and has more confidence than a spectator. Completely amazing that he put it down despite the throttle/handling problems. By 12 minutes, his voice sounds calmer, and they have gained some improvement. A real achievement to actually put it down in one piece.
Yep, it was a good job indeed!
why BS? default russian model to lie about everything even the obvious? why BS about everything ? he had multiple topped out Gs!!!
52 minutes of intense physical and mental strain!!! Incredible pilot to overcome all of this - and then landing successfully in the end.
Even when flying DCS, I'm more nervous than the cold-blooded pilot in real life. Mолодец :)
laughed out loud at that one! Amazing skill; anyone know the pilot's name?
Dude is a passenger for most of the ride but takes it in strides like a big balls mofo!
@@sjpeckham1 Igor Kruglikov
guy in a panic. and there is no command to eject . human life in Russia ia worth nothing
@@mrpicky1868 Whoa! Compare Soviet/Russian spacecraft safety with American, and you would not be saying this (three crewed Soyuz launch failures have been survived, whereas Shuttle crews were defenceless for the first two minutes of flight. Only two Soviet flights, Voskhods 1 and 2, had no escape mechanisms for the first 20 second of flight). In the case here, the pilot was far from a critical point where he had to eject; there are several videos here on RUclips of test pilots of similar Russian aircraft ejecting in truly dangerous, last split-second circumstances and surviving uninjured, so one can assume that their ejection systems are proven and reliable. i was impressed at how well the undercarriage stood up to the parachute-induced landing.
That was absolutely outstanding airmanship, no matter where he comes from.
After losing his job at Sukhoi, the software developer accepted a new position as the head of software development at Boeing for the 737 Max.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
As Boeing administration manager, I and our company deny this allegation. By the way, can you tell us your home adress? We wanna present you a special gift for trying to improve the quality of our super-reliable jets.
@@ИльяМихалевич-к2ж It's 929 Long Bridge Drive, Arlington, VA.
@@ИльяМихалевич-к2ж😂
The way he timed that chute deployment is just amazing, he is so damn lucky the plane didn't pitch up 5 seconds earlier because that would have been way to early to deploy the chute but he timed it just right. Amazing flying skills, i hope he got some sort of an award for saving this aircraft. He could have just said f this i am out and ejected, but he fought the plane and won.💪👍
He had two previous attempts that gave him an idea about roll out timing altitude and used that to know when to pop the chute. Hope he was give a medal of honor. Those puppies cost mucho ruples
У пилота железные яйца.
Transl.: The pilot has iron balls.
@@colliecloneGoogle translates for you .. we don't need you to click "translate" and copy what it says...
I hope you showing off the heroic approach will gain more views than Trevor's did.
And you did a great job letting us know what is going on.
Kudos to that pilot for his guts and skill and clear thinking.
And the Russian language sounds pretty cool too.
Thanks! :)
Can I like this ten times please. Amazing video, the pilot did fantastic, he is in a huff with his plane now.
As the video opened, I could not believe what I was seeing, the backstory even more incredible. The go arounds he used to fine tune his attitude just before touchdown, then used the brake chutes to yank the plane onto the runway - even a STOL.landing !
Incredible, imagine all that time and stress under g forces you arent intending. However....if it was me I would have quit to desktop and recalibrated my pitch axis. No bother.
Yeah I'd have re-centered the axis too haha
Thnx i spit my screen with coffe.
@@blasterml Hope the screen is alright :)
@@CommandT its ok no worries! :D
I'd have recalibrated my life choices whilst exiting the plane vertically under rockets at high speed!
Having that wearing down constant G on the aircraft and still making clear decisions is amazing.
He certainly deserves an medal for that.
Exceptional flying skills, and a set of steel nerves. Very level headed and cool.
Amazing airmanship and skill, Bob Hoover would be proud. This is an awesome display of skill and out of the box thinking. Uncontrolled pitch up is probably the worst case scenario. This reminds me of Delta flight 1080 on April 12, 1977 a Lockheed L-1011 that departed San Diego with an uncontrolled pitch up and was safely landed back in LAX by Captain Jack McMahan and his crew. Once again hats off to the Russian pilot, well done.
That the most impressive flying I`ve ever seen. The landing is truly spectacular.
Thank you for bringing this amazing case of great piloting to us. Good Stuff!! 🙂
No worries, thanks :)
Last attempt
-Plane: "IMMA GO UP!"
-Pilot "Fuck no you won't!" as he pulls the chute
perfectly highlights how remaining calm in the most dangerous situations can makes the difference between life and death.
"the opposite of Trevor Jacobs" lol... Insane video with great narration. Instant sub.
amazing stuff. I can't believe he didn't eject not long after take-off. That's extreme confidence on his part that he could regain control of the aircraft under those conditions. He should have gotten a commendation of some sort after that performance and getting the aircraft back on the ground in one piece.
There's no doubt he received proper honors for his feat in saving the malfunctioned aircraft and allowing investigators to work on a live airframe.
уверенность в системе катапультирования.
на русских самолетах лучшая в мире система. насколько я слышал было время когда американцы даже хотели закупать на свои машины эти кресла к-36 если правильно помню но изза очевидных политических разногласий и необходимости по законам сша иметь больший контроль производства не получилось.
если я прав у американцев около 25% катапультирования неудачны и пилоты гибнут а на русской системе не более 4%
@@ivannegrozni7692 You have to take into consideration how many airplanes are flying in the US in comparison to Russia, not only is it 10 times more but also most of the failed ejections are due to bad maintenance or user error.
@@DrakyHRT ты не прав.выборка процента неудач изначально включает количество. тоесть это учитывается изначально в подсчетах. например 100 катапультирований и у тебя 5 неудач это будет 5% но из 1000 катапультирований 5% это 50 неудач. поэтому не важно сколько у тебя самолетов летает. так же неудачи изза обслуживания это не показатель. ведь и в россии при плохом обслуживании будет больше неудач как и в сша. разница как раз в том что кресла катапультные русские изначально имеют высокую степень надежности на срабатывание.и обслуживать их не требуется так тщательно как американские.потому русские кресла системы катапультирования и считаются лучшими в мире.консрукция этих систем изначально лучше + надежность изготовления выше. насколько я знаю русские катапульты имеют около 4% неудачных случаев катапультирования. не знаю какой процент у современных американских но несколько лет назад я видел цифру около 25%. в любом случае русские кресла лучше любых других.
@@ivannegrozni7692 the number for USA is around 7% failure rate on unmantained aircraft, only like 10 or so failures have happened in history so it's really hard to talk about it with a sample that small, the reason i talked about the number of aircraft is because with more aircraft flying, the higher the chance to use the ejection seat in case of an emergency, which mean the sample size is bigger.
Kudos to this pilot, for his amazing flying skills, his cool mind, his effort in saving the aircraft, and - I must say - the balls of steel he displays.
I have tried to leave a comment twice but i dont see them so i guess RUclips didnt like the russian links. Anyway, this happened in 2013 not in 2015 as reported by many sources. More specifically it was 12.11.2013 and 2015 is just when the story first surfaced. From the sound of it (i have links, but apparently cant link in the comments) the issue was firmware of the algorithm for the horizontal axis. The pilot went on to be a testpilot in the T-50/Su-57 program, well deserved.
Thank you for doing this video! I am russian speaking but i had real trouble picking up a lot of the dialogue. The way he was pleading with the aircraft and was talking to it is so hilarious and so very Russian.
Oh very interesting, could you send me the links to my email by any chance? commandt26@gmail.com
Yeah some of the stuff is hard to pick up even as a native-speaker. Had to listen to a few parts about 5 or 6 times to be sure.
@@CommandT Email sent. :)
Thanks for that input. Many do not understand how much lines of code go into these digital flight control systems. I was directly involved in some developmental testing of a new auto-pilot for a cargo aircraft. Lots and lots of test flights with installed measuring equipment to get it all right.
@@sukhoifan Thanks a million, got it! Will review tomorrow and maybe make a follow- up- video if there's interesting insights. Thanks a million for sharing!
@@my-yt-inputs2580 Строки кода учли приведение органов управления к нулю?
As far as I know, this happened because the control stick was registered in the control unit only for pitch up. When the speed changes, the automatic control system imitates the load on the control stick, as if on muscle-controlled aircraft, the "0" position of the stick changed, and the aircraft went into a nose-up. Failures were not indicated, as all automation worked flawlessly. such things ... (translated and voiced by Google, do not scold for mistakes)
So instead of it being registered for pitch up and down and roll left and right it was only pitch up, meaning all the inputs for all the directions were being put into the pitch up control ? and that is why it did that ? wow that is the kind of think i will mess up in kerbal space program trying to fly an aircraft, silly mistake but humans fail sometimes, thanks for the info.
The Aircraft was born as an Su35 but it identifies as a Boeing.
Ha!
@@CommandT Da new Boeing model - VODKA!
Wow. 😳 That was some real steel nerve flying right there. To be operating that bitchy pitchy airplane in a constant pitch-up and roll only a few hundred feet off the deck while trying to land it was not for the faint hearted. I hope the man received all sorts of accolades/awards after the fact. Great video.
Well apparently he become an Su-57 test pilot according to somone in the comments!
@@CommandT ohf
Of course he got an extra glass of Vodka!
@@CommandT He is one hell of an aviator!
Pilot and controller yelling at each other, and pilot cursing at the plane as it has a mind of its own is such a Russian thing, also replacing words with curses, love it. :)
I am sure you've seen the Air Astana Flight 1388 story, if not - highly recommend it,
the situation is much worse, absolutely incredible work by the pilots to set that plane down.
man I hate the very description of the faulty maintenance that lead to it. my mind is messed up from reading the technical summary. it's literally the stuff of nightmares -- trying to fly a death trap that doesn't like to be flown. having ailerons reversed, but not being able to reverse input... c'mon...
It is not yelling, it is a normal voice state in tense situation in slavic languages...
The pilot and the controller don't yell at each other. This is a flight test airfield, if you want the pilot, under stress and 9G, to hear you, you'll have to yell.
@@TopMusic-rf3mt lol, if you spoke Russian then you would know.
Pilot: "Plane is uncontrollable",
ATC: "Can't hear you well",
Pilot (yelling on top of his lungs, directed at ATC): "Plane is uncontrollable, f**k your mother!!! b**ch!!!!".
Further down, pilot calms down, but controller is aggravated for the same reason and raises his voice, not to mention pilot cursing at the plane and at the situation.
Very understandable, but it's a pretty Russian way to deal with stressful situation.
The Air Astana Flight 1388 is, undoubtedly, one of the most insane examples of EXTREME airmanship in the history of flight. Those pilots did the impossible. The fact that the air frame was so over stressed during the flight that the aircraft was scrapped on the spot tells THAT tale......the fact that they actually put the plane on a runway, wheels down and they walked away is shocking in the extreme.
For some reason when the pilot said "ohhhh Blyaaaaaat" . I felt that.
It's remarkable the plane can land with this kind of approach, even if it didn't have flight control problems!
That's very impressive and lucky the brake parachute didn't have to rely on a weight on wheels switch to be deployed. Incredible airmanship and great vid.
The landing chute is one of the emergency features to be used in older planes to recover from the flat spin or inverted leaf falling, you have that one change to pop-it and the chute will drag plane nose down dive and you get to recover from it.
@@paristo We used them in the RAF but only in spinning trials for aircraft like Jaguar and Tornado - never knew the Russians had them fitted full time, thanks for that knowledge.
@@paristo That is not the case in Soviet aircraft -- the chutes are for reducing wear on wheels and brakes and capacity to stop the aircraft quickly while on the ground -- especially important for highway airfields, should the need arise.
@@ShadeAKAhayate that is the case. I didn't mention the obvious as I said it is landing chute, meant primarily for landing distance reduction when runway is shorter for conventional landing.
What an amazing display of piloting skills. Also, great explanation.
That pilot is remarkable in every sense of the word and deserves nothing but the upmost respect.
Outstanding! He never stopped flying his airplane.
Mad respect for the pilot.
Also, appreciation on all test pilots who tread the dangerous path of wrangling out the unexpected kinks and quirks from raw machines up in the air, day in, day out.
Simply amazing!, a true pilot with balls of steel, staying with a doomed aircraft many would have bailed out of long time ago!
Superb flying by the pilot👍👍👍
Thank you for explaining what was happening, well done video! The pilot did a nice job saving the plane.
Thanks! And yep :)
what's lost in translation is that pilot is addressing controller as plural (honorific way speaking). Controller is addressing the pilot as singular (casual terms of speaking). It could be because there are many people are consulting with a controller or it could be because controller just has a higher status :P
@@aimless-drifter Yes, indeed. Impossible to translate to English or even explain!
That's pretty much how I land in the DCS MiG-21 everytime hahaha.
i understoon two part, "aaaaahhhhh blyat!" and "Noooo, blyat!" lmfao! what a freaking legend!!
Such a feel when you watch Russian content with English subtitles
Great presentation of horrendous situation showing this pilot's outstanding airmanship.
Exceptional piloting, best I have seen. The man should have a medal for that.
Anyone else, including me would have banged out!
His Nz indication is showing 0 in the HUD when it should be 1 on the ground. Guessing the FCS's accelerometer in the normal axis has failed. Hence the aircraft wanting to trim the stabiliser trailing edge up seeking 1g flight. Normally the FCS accelerometer sensors are independent of the primary navigation systems. By establiahing a turn, the FCS's pitch rate damping helps to counteract the pitchup caused by the incorrectly sensed g. I'm guessing had he observed the incorrect g indication on taxi, he probably would have canceled the takeoff. You could also see the gear, with its natural pitch down moment, helped stabilise the aircraft.
It's pretty hard to fathom how he pulled this off. I can't wrap my head around how he kept his cool and found a way to put the plane down safely. Nuts!
Respect to the pilot!!!
Wild he fought this thing for 52 minutes, that’s crazy long to be up there pulling G’s and trying to troubleshoot. I hope to have this much courage and tenacity when called on.
I feel like you will
Now that is some EXTREME tech support.
Amazing airmanship by the pilot.
Him chastising the plane is pretty funny, though don't think it was much fun for him.
That was extremely bad airmanship. Good airmanship would have been to eject after about 15-20 seconds of flight.
Maybe you don’t know the meaning of airmanship. It was great handling, but catastrophic airmanship.
And let that plane spiral down into the city below? I think not.
@@xyzaero look at this armchair pilot and laugh
At some stage when he tries something new and the plane starts pitching again pilot just goes "ah f*ck your mother" 😂
@@emporioraruto 7:28? 😅
So glad I found this channel. 🙏🏻
That was absolutely incredible.
Quite a brave and intelligent pilot. Respect.
Wow! What a great video. And great flying. Thank you.
When the pilot survives: "there was a problem with the plane, and our incredible pilot overcame all odds and survived"
When the pilot dies: "pilot induced error"
every single time
Can’t be any better than this pilot was. Out standing !
An amazing piece of flying and pilot deserves huge credit for staying with the aircraft.
Can we have an update to let us know what technical faults had caused the aircraft to react in that way, an has any other aircraft suffered in a cimilar way . Thank you for sharing this with us all.
No problem, I will try to make a follow-up if I can get the info :)
I don't think they will share this info keeping in mind this is a fighter jet in service nowadays, i wish they do it but just to have this footage it's a lot. About this failure it's very uncommon but the fact that the airplane creates interference using the direct control mode suggest me that it's an electrical problem, something it was still engaged even using the direct input. Also because of that random warnings showed on the screen. But if it is a test flight, maybe a bad designed experimental software update? Anything can be.
@@guillermogarcia6248 Apparently it was an algorithm (coding) error in the FCS
@@guillermogarcia6248 AFAIK direct is also through flight computer, only with simpler algorithms.
@@hrissan I don't know a lot about this aircraft, i just have seen similar examples on Airbus. Но спасибо большое мой друг) тоже красиво самолёт
Test pilots are the best aviators in the world. Their ability to keep their cool and also fly incomplete aircraft systems is absolutely amazing
I mean the way he maintained his SA, kept cool, everything while the plane kept pulling cobras on him is just CRAZY...
That was a show of amaaazing airmanship and superior flying skills!!!!! What a beast!!!
That’s one hell of a pilot!
incredible pilot skill and bravery
Pilot comes back home that day after work.
Mariya: How was your day?
Aleksei: Normal. Work was crazy.
Mariya: I wanted to ask you, would you still love me if I was a worm?
Aleksei: I forgot something in the office
*goes for some spine crunching high G rolls and loops*
Aleksei: "At least I know what BS to expect here..."
Lol
That’s some of the finest flying I’ve ever seen - hats off to that pilot for working the problem when most might have given up and said, ‘This is too crazy I’m outta here’. The final icing on the cake was his chutes deployment in a last desperate attempt to counter the threshold pitch up - what a split second move. Definitely deserves a DFC. Balls of unobtainium.👍
People underestimate Russian pilots so much. Same thing during cold war, all those elite pilots in Korea, Vietnam and bunch of African conflicts were Soviet volunteers.
In USSR there was a program that pilots could apply for to gain real experience, after this they should be forcefully retired as teachers to train future pilots.
A lot of pilots did this because thrill and the fact that it basically guaranteed them a very high pay, teacher position, a lot of them also ended up flying civilian passenger planes.
People do not understand but in USSR, flying passengers was some of the highest honours you could do, and you actually needed to serve in the airforce to be approved for it, that is why USSR had so few airplane crashes comparable to anyone else. People underestimate but Aeroflot flew more despite having fewer passengers. Most Soviet airports were in remote cities in Siberia and Arctic which had extremely difficult conditions.
In particular event, a Soviet passenger airplane slid in the runaway duo to ice build up in less then 5 minutes. Pilots used their engine thrusts in split second moment to correct the plane and ended up with only a few fatalities and a complete hull loss, unheard of in the west under such conditions, because Soviet pilots were trained for exactly these things but to mention Soviet passenger airplane were often retrofitted military planes usually has much stronger super structure as a result.
This was fascinating to watch!
The flight model of the Su-57 in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 mimicks this unstable handling perfectly.
Haha!
Pilot has earned a new call sign. Left Turn.
Thanks for sharing, Maybe in the future a young pilot will remember this piloting feat and save himself or herself as well. A big cheers to that brave and smart pilot!
Чертовски осознанный. И он знал, что посадит. Адский Профи! 💫🏹👹
very impressive
Brilliant pilot
I land planes like this all the time.
In simulators, with the experience I had gained by crashing +100 times.
This guy has a pair of steel balls for doing this IRL with broken FCS.
Fantastic pilot skills.
That bird flexed real good when it landed. Wonder if she was okay to fly or if the Su35 needed a major going over.
That's what I was thinking. An incredibly hard touch down. I wasn't expecting the gear to survive
Would`ve been a great advertisement for the maufacturer if they had a wreck of their product right next to the production site.
In all seriousness, this is beyond amazing. This is something very few pilots would`ve pulled off successfully. Got to love russian hardware. If it fails, it`s a pain. But a pain you can still salvage in some cases. Also have to give them credit for the incredibly rugged undercarriage. This Sukhoi literally crashed onto the pavement and shook it off.
But, if I`m not mistaken, pretty much all russian fighters come with an insanely robust landing gear since the infrastructure sometimes is less then ideal.
Yep, Russian gear has always been designed with poor runway surfaces and off-site landings in mind, including unpaved strips and fields. Western landing gear does always look a bit puny by comparison unless it's a carrier aircraft. I bet that's why the Finns and Swiss partly opted for an F/A-18 over the typical land-born western fighters.
Got to love russian hardware, gotta hate russian software.
An Su57 also did this same landing at an airshow
@@julienckjm7430 Yeah, not quite as a dramatic though haha
@@CommandT That's true!😅
I love his passion and I respect his airmanship, very impressive!!
Amazing skills from the Pilot there. Flying against a flight control system that is haywire. 🏅🏅🏅🏅
Wonderful skill set. Clearly well trained, calm & cool. I'm close to USN pilots. Will run this by a few for hints on how they would handle the situation.
That is not some "controller", that is senior/ chief/ test pilot giving hints. Swearing is "nominal" as this is a major fu... err, messup. As a proverb from Soviet times says, "A test pilot should be able to fly everything that is able to fly, and, with certain difficulties, to fly what cannot be flown".
That is surely one of the most amazing feats I have ever witnessed.
Пилот: Кругликов Игорь Георгиевич
Летчик-испытатель. Пилоты в гражданской авиации, в военной - летчики.
Я сам гражданский, но как-то исторически так повелось.
Это как корабль и судно. Гражданские - суда, военные - корабли.
That is just incredible! that pilot deserves a medal for that IYAM!!!
This clearly shows Russian Pilots are absolute legends! 🤩🤩👍
9:29 controller didn't get "aggravated". He raised his voice because the pilot asked him to repeat what he just said, because he couldn't make it out. I mean, if you'r speaking over the phone and the other guy says he didn't hear you - you speak louder, it's pretty natural
Well done by the pilot, much respect!
Thanks for that rare footage.
Considering you seem to have all the flight datas, it would have been super interesting at the end of the video to add a tacview of the entire path this pilot went through his struggle
I don’t have all the data. Just the video you see
Это истребитель, он лёгкий. Причина такого поведения - отказ дистанционной системы управления (или инверсия по одной из осей управления). Наши лётчики сажали большой пассажирский Ту 154, где после технического обслуживания перепутали каналы управления по тангажу и рысканью. "Голландский шаг" на такой машине очень непросто сделать. И они смогли посадить его!
Автор, неплохой у тебя английский, хоть и есть лёгкий акцентик. По видео - с "цифрой " видать проблемы были. Но как пилот этот косяк победил. Вероятно попытками и понял как на этом косяке на полосу выйти. Выпустил тормозные на удачу и плюхнулся на бетонку с метров 7 жестко.. ёпт.. как стойки выдержали такой удар. Очень опытный пилот. Можно только представить разборы с цифровой группой инженеров)) А парень пилот точно звезду на китель получил. Супер!
Very skilled pilot save the plane. He such a calm pilot. Never once he was mentioned about eject options.
He said he considered it at one point after he already decided he wasn't going to give in. But yeah, good job!
Oh and those Gs almost constantly ouch. Great flier indeed. I do believe this unwillingness to bail is quite natural human thinking. We have this urge to try and save the situation, sometimes to our determent. We just don't want to admit defeat.
@@DirkLarien Hmmm, can't say all pilots think this way haha
Trevor Jacobs LOL that guy jumped from a fully functional plane
If you look at the HUD right above the left end of the sideslip indicator there is something that reads "Nz". Would that be the G meter? It constantly reads 0 (at times flickering to 0.1 or 0.2). If the G-meter had an error and the FCS thought the plane was in a zero-G dive it might make sense that FCS commanded pitch-up to correct. Just a hypothesis.
This was absolutely mesmerizing. Great commentary. What a great save, popping the chutes to get it finally on the runway. Staggering amount of skill to do that. (The Trevor Jacob elbow at the end cracked me up)